Annular Solar Eclipse: Will it be visible from India?

The annular solar eclipse will be visible today from parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh in India.

The annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun, the moon and the earth are in a straight line. The moon comes between the sun and earth, and casts a shadow on Earth, fully or partially blocking the Sun.

Since it's an annular solar eclipse, the moon will be at the farthest covering the Sun partially and forming a ring of fire.


"In Arunachal Pradesh, people can see, just before the sunset, a minuscule fraction of the sun covered by the moon, that is also very low in the horizon, lasting at the most 3-4 minutes depending upon the position," PTI quoted Director of M P Birla Planetarium, Debiprasad Duari, as saying.

"On the northern borders, in Ladakh, a sliver of land in the border region can experience the last phase of the partial eclipse, again for a short duration, but relatively at a higher altitude than the eastern part of the country," he added.

First, the partial eclipse will start at around 11:42 am Indian Standard Time and the annular eclipse will appear to occur from 3:30 pm and will continue up to 4:52 pm, though for different intervals for a particular region, depending upon one's geographical location.